Mathematics Resources for Students

The Department of Mathematics maintains a number of resources for students to use, from research to fellowship opportunities.

Tutorials

• Calculus Tutorials

Student Travel Funds

• HMC Mathematics Department Student Application for Travel Funds

Other Mathematics Resources

Scholarships and Prizes

• The RIF Scholarship
• Departmental Awards and Prizes

Undergraduate Research Resources

• Preparing a Conference Poster:
  • Advice
• Our Poster Page

Summer Research

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Programs

• REU in Data Science at Harvey Mudd College
• NSF REU List
• AMS REU List
• Steve Butler’s list of REU programs
• REUs in other sciences

Industrial Research

• RIPS program at IPAM at UCLA (Look under “IPAM Summer Programs” for “Research in Industrial Projects for Students”)

Mathematical Biology/Biostatistics

• Math BioSciences Institute summer program at Ohio State
• Biostatistics Summer Institutes (SIBS) at Boston UniversityandNorth Carolina State University

Other Opportunities

• Park City Math Institute—three-week summer program; look for the undergraduate track.
• Lunar and Planetary Institute Summer Program in Planetary Science (NASA)

Programs for Women

• Institute for Advanced Study Program for Women in Mathematics (for advanced women undergraduates)
• Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics
• Edge Program (for graduating senior women going to grad school in mathematics)

International Exchange Programs

• Budapest Semesters in Mathematics

Life After College

• Harvey Mudd College Office of Career Services
• The GRE Home Page

Graduate Fellowships

• NSF Graduate FellowshipRecent HMC winners: Carl Yerger ’05, David Gaebler ’04, Andrew Niedermaier ’04, Melissa Chase ’03, Nate Eldredge ’03, Daniel Lowd ’03, Andrew Iannaccone ’03, …
• Hertz Graduate FellowshipRecent HMC winners: Joel Miller ’00, Aaron Archer ’98, Kevin Watkins ’98
• Watson FellowshipRecent HMC winners: Gwen Spencer ’05, Tara Martin ’04
• Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowships (for minorities)
• NPSC Graduate Fellowship (for women and minorities)Marie Snipes ’99 (awarded 2004), Carol Meyers Pomona’00.
• NSERC Graduate Fellowship (for Canadian citizens; can study in U.S.)Recent HMC winners: Yinan Song ’00
• Knowles Science Teaching Fellowships for those who want to teach high school science and math

Interesting PagesBased at Harvey Mudd College

• Mudd Math Fun Facts
• Francis Su’s Fair Division Page and Calculator redone by the New York Times
• Odetoolkit

Other Math Resources on the Web

• Mathematical Association of America
• American Mathematical Society
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Topology Atlas, with commentary by Professor Emeritus Mel Henriksen